Two blocks east of the Quad, the doors are open all day. Worship on Tuesday, lunch on Wednesday, campus on Friday. Come as often — or as rarely — as your semester allows.
Worship,
Then a Room
Small Enough to Talk In.
Worship, a student's story, and teaching from the Bible in the chapel. Then student-led small groups around the building until a quarter to nine.
A Local Church
Cooks. Your First
Lunch Is Free.
A dollar after that. At noon there's a short time of prayer, teaching and encouragement. It is the easiest room on campus to walk into alone.
The First Time,
You Can Just
Listen.
A short training on how to have a conversation about Jesus, then out onto campus in pairs. Nobody goes alone, and nobody has to say anything.
Nothing here needs a sign-up, an invitation, or a friend already inside. Show up to one and see.
7:00 pm worship · 8:00–8:45 pm small groups
We meet in the chapel for worship, student testimonies, and teaching from the Bible. After that, we spread out into student-led small groups around the building.
What Tuesday is like11:30 am – 12:30 pm
A local church cooks a real meal. At noon there’s a short time of prayer, teaching and encouragement. It is the easiest room on campus to walk into alone.
Who’s cooking this week12:00 pm
A brief training on how to have a conversation about Jesus, then we go out on campus together. The first time, you’re welcome to walk along and say nothing at all.
Read this before you come
“We don’t have members, only participants. You participate as your schedule permits and as much (or as little) as you want. There is no fee.”
The one exception is Wednesday Lunch — free your first time, a dollar after that.
Baptist Campus Ministries serves students from The University of Alabama, Shelton State Community College, and Stillman College. We are here to help you love God, love each other, and love campus.
We are not a church, but a student organization that is a ministry of a network of local churches known as the Tuscaloosa County Baptist Association — open to all students regardless of faith background. We are on campus to be on mission. We gather here, in a place made up of many churches, for the sake of going out together.
For the Christian student that means we are here to help you deepen your relationship with Christ, to help you discover your gifts, passions and talents, and to show you how to use them for God’s glory and His Kingdom.
For the non-Christian student, we want to be a safe place for you to explore who God is and what it means to be a Christian. We want to help you understand you are loved, not just by us, but by God.
Read the whole thing
Ping pong, a TV, a prayer room, and somewhere quiet to study. You don’t need an event or an invitation.
Every summer, students count down to Welcome Week by writing about one thing they wish they’d known.
“The BCM also made the immense size of campus feel so much smaller.”
Matthew Higgs“It is rare to find the building empty or without a game of ping-pong.”
Lindsey Wood“The best thing I ever did was regularly come to the BCM; it provided me with a space to be vulnerable.”
Abbie JeromeOne house, three student bodies. Here is exactly what exists on each campus today.
The full weekly rhythm, in the house at 403 University Blvd — two blocks east of the Quad.
See the weekFree lunch and Bible study, Thursdays 11:30–12:30, Martin Campus Room 2214 — plus everything at the BCM.
Shelton BCMStillman students are welcome at everything we do. There isn’t a gathering on your campus yet — if you’d like to see one start, talk to Kim.
Start somethingBCM has been on the University of Alabama campus for more than a hundred years. In April 2022, alumni came back to the Baptist Student Center to mark it — and to hand the next hundred years to the students in the room.
Two fields is enough. A campus minister replies within two business days — and someone will look for you at the door.
